A WORLD APART

Through letters lost and found, this one-woman show finds a daughter exploring her family’s parallel lives during WW2 on both sides of the ocean, featuring songs of the 1940’s from America and abroad.

When my parents died in 2010, within 3 weeks of each other, I found hundreds of over-the-top love letters that they wrote over their seventy year marriage. I couldn’t resist the opportunity to embody their early innocence and dreams juxtaposed with the struggles of my relatives in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Written by Joyce Miriam Friedman

Audience Feedback

So natural on stage that the effect was one of effortless ease, like an everyday conversation. We felt drawn into the magic of that conversation. What SHOULD we do to preserve the boxes of family archives? What a way to honor your parents.

Eliza

Left with an all pervasive expression of heart, of love, not only through your parents but also through the other characters with their portrayals using music, props and costumes. Your voice is capable of breathing life into an amazing range of songs.

Saphira

Deep meaning and heartfelt connection that wove us through time, transporting us into their hearts and ours — there is the sheer joy of your performance and artistry. The show moved it firmly from ‘merely’ performance, to feeling the depth of our interwoven lives and legacies.

Like a Shaman, A World Apart gathered that which is needed for the benefit of the community and brought it back through ritual, story, movement and song in a digestible healing form to create needed change.